CONWAY, Ark. (April 8, 2014) – Dr. Eric Binnie, Professor
Emeritus of Theatre Arts at Hendrix College, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to
study "Representations of the 'Other': Jews in medieval England" at a
five-week NEH Summer Institute at Oxford University this summer.
Binnie taught in the Hendrix College Department of Theatre
Arts and Dance from 1989 until 2011.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.